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Direct linkApril Jacobsen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic, along with historical inequities, resulted in a widening of the achievement gap between underserved populations and more advantaged students. In response to this issue, California took action by allocating additional funds to public school districts for out-of-school-time services through the Expanded Learning Opportunities…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Implementation, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Download full textDesiree Carver-Thomas; Melanie Leung-Gagné; Danielle Jeannite – Learning Policy Institute, 2024
Like many states across the nation, California is facing persistent teacher shortages. School districts continue to find it difficult to fill vacancies with fully credentialed teachers, especially math, science, special education, and bilingual education teachers. Teacher shortages impact student learning as districts resort to relying on a…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Certification, Disadvantaged Schools, Grants
Maier, Anna; Niebuhr, Deanna – Learning Policy Institute, 2021
The historic $3 billion investment in the California Community Schools Partnership Program provides an opportunity to transform schools into community hubs that deliver a whole child education. This brief examines key elements of the new law. It then lays out evidence-based principles of high-quality community schools implementation that are…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Partnerships in Education, Holistic Approach, Educational Finance
Knudson, Joel; Handjojo, Candice; Sunde, Ashley – American Institutes for Research, 2021
Computer science (CS) education in California has grown substantially in the last decade. Early grassroots efforts have evolved into a broad coalition of educators, industry leaders, and other members of the CS community known as Computer Science for California (CSforCA). At the same time, developments in multiple aspects of state policy reflect…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Computer Science Education, Educational Development
Wu, Tyler – Education Trust-West, 2019
California is fortunate to be the 5th largest economy in the world with an abundance of resources and diverse talent. Among those resources are our state colleges, which are not only premier institutions, but they are also changing lives and communities. Access to financial aid is critical for low-income students and students of color who want to…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Low Income Students, State Aid, High School Seniors
Mortrude, Judy; Cielinski, Anna – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2017
In January 2016, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) commenced an 18-month project to study the implementation of California's Adult Education Block Grant (AEBG) initiative. AEBG's purpose is "to improve coordination and better serve the needs of adult learners within each region." CLASP set out to foster greater understanding…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Block Grants, Educational Finance, Program Implementation
Estes, Elizabeth; Davis, Jeff; Shilton, Adrienne; Stoner-Mertz, Christine; Funk, Michael; Eisenberg, Lisa; Weller, Teneh; Knecht, Richard S.; Kelley, Veronica; Kain, Lara; Peck, Jennifer; Rosario, Aleah; Lombardo, Michael; Kimner, Hayin; Jacobs, Melissa; Dickey, Amanda; Epstein, Ken; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Alcala, Lupita; Caparas, Ruthie; Coley, Aressa; Justus, Marianne; Willis, Jason; Larsen, Karen – WestEd, 2022
This field guide is a first step by a collaborative of California child-serving education, health, and social service experts and leaders to further California's current efforts toward one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving system. The guide includes guidance for both local education agencies (LEAs) and state leaders,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Guides, School Districts, Public Officials
Knudson, Joel; Ramanathan, Arun; Carter, Allison; O'Day, Jennifer – California Collaborative on District Reform, 2017
The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) has introduced positive and much-needed change to California's approach to K-12 education funding by allocating resources according to student need and freeing districts to make decisions that address local priorities. For all of LCFF's advantages, however, the Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) in…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, School District Autonomy, School Districts, Educational Change
Matlach, Lauren – Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, 2015
Evaluation studies can provide feedback on implementation, support continuous improvement, and increase understanding of evaluation systems' impact on teaching and learning. Despite the importance of educator evaluation studies, states often need support to prioritize and fund them. Successful studies require expertise, time, and a shared…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Evaluation, Teacher Evaluation, State Aid
Fuller, Bruce; Tobben, Laura – Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, 2014
The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) was enacted by the California legislature in June 2013 and fundamentally changes the distribution of education dollars to districts. The legislation simplifies the formula for sending money to districts and now takes into account the higher costs of educating certain groups of students, specifically those…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, State Aid, Educational Finance, School Districts
Knudson, Joel – California Collaborative on District Reform, 2014
The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) represents a fundamental transformation of the way California allocates state funds to school districts and the ways the state expects districts to make decisions about (and report on) the use of these funds. This is the first in a series of short briefs that aims to capture some key themes emerging from…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, School Districts
Hallett, Ronald E.; Skrla, Linda; Low, Justin – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2015
School districts play a key role in identifying, supporting, and educating homeless students. This qualitative case study of a school district in Northern California illustrates how district leadership serves as a bridge between federal policy and local school sites. In this case study, federal funding funneled through the state served as the…
Descriptors: School Districts, Homeless People, Disadvantaged Youth, At Risk Students
Shulock, Nancy; Moore, Colleen – Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy, 2014
This report provides six mini-case studies of higher education policy reforms enacted in other states, exploring the important role that state policy leadership played in developing, promoting, and implementing these policies aimed at improving higher education outcomes, and discussing the relevance of each reform effort for California. This…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Case Studies
Ware, Michelle; Patel, Reshma – MDRC, 2012
The expense of attending college is one factor that may explain why low-income students often drop out of school. In California, despite generous state aid and relatively low fees at community colleges, many low-income students still have substantial college-related costs that they cannot cover. To compound matters, federal support for students…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, State Aid, Educational Finance, Scholarships
Fain, Terry; Turner, Susan; Ridgeway, Greg – RAND Corporation, 2010
In 2000, the California State Legislature passed the Schiff-Cardenas Crime Prevention Act, which authorized funding for county juvenile-justice programs and designated the Corrections Standards Authority (CSA) (formerly named the Board of Corrections) the administrator of funding. A 2001 California Senate bill extended the funding and changed the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Crime Prevention, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
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